Responsive Web Design

 I contemplated a lot if there is a point in writing this blog post, but here it is. When I set out to do my website, I read a lot that you should always try to create a responsive design. Responsive design means that you adopt approach, where your website responds to any dynamic changes when being used. In other words  - if people will open it in Safari or Chrome; on a phone, tablet or laptop; how they will prefer to orientate their device when looking at it. Let me tell you - when you are just starting and you consider yourself still pretty much a beginner, this is not an easy task. The more I read about it, the more I realised that I neither have the time, neither the knowledge to incorporate this in my website. At this point I am not even sure if my website will be working between browsers, let alone consider responsive breakpoints, fluid grids and additional work on images used to achieve responsive design. So, I guess the point of this post is that I want to make clear I will do my best on that front, but in terms of responsive web design, there should not be much to be expected.


P.S Now I am grateful I decided to write few sentences about this. With my website already uploaded on the Uni server, I can declare that it works better in Chrome, my CV has different view in Safari and as a whole I did not create the most responsive website, despite using Boostrap. Yet, I think that in TB2, when we are doing a group project, it is something that I will definitely consider more and try, as I already learned enough about it. Just ran out of time to apply it this time around.

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